Metal sign-board



(No Model.)

P. V. BAVENSON.

D R A 0 B N G I S L A T E M No. 576,662. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS V. EAVENSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METAL SIGN-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,662, dated February9, 1897.

Application filed October 29, 1895. Serial No. 567,282. (No model.)

To to whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, FRANCIS V. EAVEN- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MetalSign- Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in metal sign-boards; and theobject of my invention is to furnish an inexpensive metal sign-boardparticularly adapted to be secured to and to project outward fromVertical cylindrical iron posts or rods, an awning-post, for example.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and inwhich simi lar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughoutboth views, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a sign-board embodying myimprovements, and Fig. 2 a plan of blank from which the board shown inFig. 1 is formed.

A is my sign-board, which is formed from a blank. (Shown in Fig. 2.) Theblank being cut substantially to the form shown, its upper face haspainted, printed, or otherwise suitably marked upon it the design orwords desired. The blank, if of very thin metal, which I prefer for thesake of economy, is now struck up or embossed in dies, so as to formridges a,

holes 0 in the board and around the post.

When in place, the board projects out substantially at right angles tothe axis of the pole.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A metal sign-board formedfrom a single piece of metal folded over upon itself as shown and one ofthe sides of the upper and lower ends of which are furnished with earsI) adapted to be bent over upon the opposite side and the ends of which,opposite the end formed by the fold of the metal, are bent one to oneside, the other to the other side, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

FRANCIS V. EAVENSON.

Witnesses CHRISTOPHER FALLON, CHAS. A. RUTTER.

